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A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head.

A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details.…

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

mn. See under Cluster, v. t. -- Column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing.

To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

ining to, or used in, composition. Composing frame (Print.), a stand for holding cases of type when in use. -- Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; -- called also setting rule.…

One who sets type and arranges it for use.

Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.

Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.

logous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

ect the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

Same as Correspondence, 3. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.